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  • NORTHERN IRELAND: AN AGONY CONTINUED
    KEN WHARTON
    This book is called 'An Agony Continued' because it was simply that: an agony. It was an agony which commenced at the end of the 1960s and as the new decade of the 80s arrived, so the pain, the grief, the loss and the economic destruction of Northern Ireland continued. Little did any of us know at the time, but it was to do so for almost a further two decades. Between January 1...

    $251.00

  • WASTED YEARS, WASTED LIVES, VOLUME 2
    KEN WHARTON
    Volume 2 does what it says on the can - it continues from where the first volume left off. It looks at the bloody years of 1978 and 1979. It covers eyewitness accounts from soldiers on the ground and there is the occasional comment from civilians who were living in the troubled province at the time. There are accounts from the IRA atrocity at the la Mon Restaurant when the terr...

    $251.00

  • BULLETS, BOMBS AND CUPS OF TEA
    KEN WHARTON
    This is Ken Wharton's second oral history of the Northern Ireland troubles told again from the perspective of the ordinary British soldier. This book looks deeper into the conflict, utilising stories from new contributors providing revealing and long-forgotten stories of the troubles from the back streets of the Ardoyne to the bandit country of South Armagh. Ken Wharton - himse...

    $383.99

  • A LONG LONG WAR
    KEN WHARTON
    The author of Bloody Belfast delivers "a vivid and unforgettable record" of the Northern Irish conflict that captures the "true horrors of war" ( Best of British).   There are stories from some of the most seminal moments during the troubles in Northern Ireland—the Crossmaglen firefights, the 1988 corporals killings, the Ballygawley bus bombing, and more—told from the perspecti...

    $314.00

  • ANOTHER BLOODY CHAPTER IN AN ENDLESS CIVIL WAR
    KEN WHARTON
    Four years of bloodshed in mid-1980s Northern Ireland, in the words of British soldiers who experienced it firsthand. Includes photos.   Proceeding month-by-month from 1984 through 1987, this historical project provides a deep and detailed portrait of the British military experience in a period of frequent and unpredictable violence as the Provisional IRA grew in financial and ...

    $229.00

  • WASTED YEARS, WASTED LIVES VOLUME 1
    KEN WHARTON
    The first volume in this two-part oral history brings to life the experiences of British Army soldiers during the Troubles in the mid 1970s. British Army veteran Ken Wharton has written extensively on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland, shedding light on the experiences and sacrifices of British military and police. Though often overlooked by historians, many of these comm...

    $229.00

  • SIR, THEY'RE TAKING THE KIDS INDOORS
    KEN WHARTON
    The British Army veteran and oral historian presents vivid firsthand accounts of soldiers on the frontlines of the Troubles in the early 1970s. This volume in Ken Wharton's series of oral histories chronicling the conflict in Northern Ireland looks at the bloody period of 1973/4. As with all of Wharton's books, it combines painstaking research with numerous contributions from B...

    $229.00